David Green and Foreign Workers

foreign workers: Economists and immigration experts say there are solutions at hand as the Conservatives grapple with yet another controversy involving temporary foreign workers. , according to CBC. "Are these workers truly needed in some sectors? There's a tendency for non-economists to think of an economy as a machine, where if you're missing certain parts, the machine doesn't work, and certainly businesses want us to regard it that way. But that's not always the case." How to solve a problem like the federal government's scandal-plagued Temporary Foreign Worker Program? "We have to figure out what we want as a labour market in the end," David Green, an economics professor at the University of British Columbia who specializes in wage and employment issues, said in an interview Tuesday. Support pours in for Weyburn, Sask., waitresses who lost jobs McDonald's boycott threatened over use of temporary foreign workers Waitresses in Saskatchewan lose jobs to foreign workers (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.